House panel gets upset about lack of data.
PUBLISHED: 14 Nov 2024 at 04: 00
A committee in the House will summon former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra to provide details on allegations that he received exclusive care at Police General Hospital ( PGH) while he was imprisoned there.
The council on condition security, border affairs, national strategy and reform chaired by Rangsiman Rome, a list-MP of the main opposition People’s Party, will hold its next meeting on Nov 22 and may ask several parties to go, said a source.
The council will encourage Thaksin, Justice Minister Pol Col Tawee Sodsong, Corrections Department director-general Sahakarn Petchnarin, PGH producer Pol Lt Gen Taweesilp Wechawitarn, Medical Correctional Institution producer Wattanachai Mingbancherdsuk, Police Deputy Commissioner Pol Lt Gen Sophonrat Singhajaru and other health professionals.
At its first meeting on Tuesday, the council learned “worrying” information about the prison system’s treatment practices and the move of a critically ill prisoner. No care information, photos, or video recordings from PGH that suggested consistent standards of care for captives receiving medical care outside of incarceration were provided, yet.
Some officers may be punished, according to Palang Pracharath Party official Pol Lt Gen Piya Tawichai, who allowed Thaksin to spend six months receiving treatment on the 14th ground of PGH before he was granted parole. He claimed that soldiers or rangers must watch an essential prisoner while they are being treated for him.
Local authorities are also required to be on call all the time. The PGH claimed that all CCTV cameras on the 14th floor were broken, despite the fact that they had work. There was no more evidence, such as health records or everyday prescribed records, which he found to be wary. Thaksin’s extended stay at the hospital is also being investigated by the National Anti-Corruption Commission ( NACC), he said.
Pichit Chaimongkol, of the Network of Students and People for Reform of Thailand ( NSPRT), submitted a letter asking about the NACC’s probe yesterday.